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Sadly it still doesn't hold a candle to the book.

The book isn't *that* great though. It's revolutionary for its time, and it's well-written.

But it's not something I can see going down into the annals alongside of The Iliad/Odyssey or Shakespeare.

And you can't exactly turn that ridiculously dark material into a TV show, other than for Showtime/HBO.

I'd like to know where people are getting these rumors of a PG/PG-13 rating on this. I watched the interview videos but I didn't notice any mention of this if there is one.


So is this true? Or is it just unfounded gossip?

I'd say unfounded gossip or some obscure announcement we missed, Metalli.

Just realeased news letter. It has some more concept art (including servitor, bolter round, thunderhawk and landscape) and crew listings.

Martyn Pick - Director
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Martyn Pick’s credits include the 2009 film The Age of Stupid as animation director; London 2012, the promotional film for the 2012 Olympics; and the celebrated BBC promotional trailers for the Euro 2004 soccer tournament; and the Budweiser 2001 NBA commercials.

Martyn is recognised for his distinctive fusion of live-action and animation, and the fluid, painterly style of his film-making.

David Kerney - Producer
Biography

Head of Production for Codex Pictures Ltd, David Kerney is an experienced media accountant, working with such companies as Working Title, Zenith, Universal, 2oth Century Fox and, on the original BIONICLE® films, for the LEGO Company.

Bob Thompson - Producer
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Bob Thompson is best-known for co-creating the hugely successful BIONICLE® IP for for the LEGO Company and producing the original multi award-winning BIONICLE® movies.

The founder of Good Story Productions, a film and TV production studio with multi-platform expertise, Bob formerly worked at the BBC and BBC Worldwide.

Dan Abnett - Screenwriter
Biography

Dan Abnett is a best-selling author, with more than 25 titles for Games Workshop’s Black Library to his credit, and sales in excess of 1.2m copies. He also writes regularly for 2000AD, Marvel Comics and DC Comics, and has recently seen publication of the first of three novels for Harper Collins’ new sci-fi, fantasy and horror imprint, Angry Robot.

Roddy McManus - Co-Producer
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He has held key production and management positions with Discreet Logic, Softimage, Microsoft and The National Film Board of Canada. Roddy began his career as a musician and recording artist for CBS / Sony BMG Music.

Dan Fausett - Head of Storyboards
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An highly-experienced storyboard artist with more than 100 movie and TV credits, Dan Faucett has worked on productions including the original BIONICLE® trilogy of DVDs, Space Jam and the X-Men TV series.

Kanluwen wrote:I'd say unfounded gossip or some obscure announcement we missed, Metalli.

I was thinking so. Abnett isn't C.S.-Fething-Goto. This isn't going to be some All-Ages Gakfest movie. I don't think Abnett would've agreed to direct it if GW told him it had to be suitable for a family film. If it were hitting major theatres they might say "Okay guys, easy on the chunks and the red stuff". But being that I've watched a lot of Direct movies in past years, a direct-to-DVD film generally has a much smaller target audience. D2D films tend to put more effort into pleasing that particular audience, because that audience is where they'll make most of their money. So if that audience expects gore, they'll get lots of it, because the last thing they want is to put out a bad film that most of their followers will avoid because of bad reviews, which is an error a small studio can't afford to make.

I'm thinking some 40K hater started telling people it'll be PG-13 because they want to see this movie faulter, which is just a dumb plan in more ways than I can count (I only have 20 digits after all )

To summarize, I think we have nothing to worry about. Like I said, Dan Abnett isn't some fethwad that's willing to tarnish himself in a big project like this just because GW asked him not to scare the children. I can see Abnett thinking more along the lines of "Just don't show this movie to your kids then." or "Then we'll make an edited version that's less gory". But certainly not "Okay. I'll write a bad story with no gore if it means the Pokémon kids will like it."


I'm going to say this is going to be brutal as all. A "Clean" version might be added to the special features, but there's no way Abnett is going to bend over just because the moral crusader type parents would rather blame GW than themselves for letting their kids watch a gory 40K movie.

Kanluwen wrote:
However, there is a possibility that I find oddly intriguing.

The Tau.

FTW

binky wrote:

Kanluwen wrote:
However, there is a possibility that I find oddly intriguing.

The Tau.

FTW

Slaughtering arian Space Elves is R rated but slaughtering small, gray, asian-themed people can be PG13.



Unless of course Marines won't be slaughtering anyone but rather settle for giving them a stern look and showing the way out of Imperial space.

http://ultramarinesthemovie.com/about?utm_source=Ultramarines%3A+The+Movie&utm_campaign=eb15407fab-Newsletter_Issue_003_1_28_2010&utm_medium=email

few new concept artworks... *shrugs*

Way to stay up on topic.

Upon seeing that concept art, why am I reminded of Blood Quest the Movie for some reason?

reds8n wrote: http://ultramarinesthemovie.com/about?utm_source=Ultramarines%3A+The+Movie&utm_campaign=eb15407fab-Newsletter_Issue_003_1_28_2010&utm_medium=email

few new concept artworks... *shrugs*

What's wrong with that fired bolter round? Looks so unreal, rounds don't frag the end up and go all black like that! What is the propellant in 41st cent? Gunpowder! lol

Okaaay, I'll just wander off and get a life then...

Bolter "Bolts" are small rockets so the charge starts the rocket.

Sharpasaspoon wrote:

reds8n wrote: http://ultramarinesthemovie.com/about?utm_source=Ultramarines%3A+The+Movie&utm_campaign=eb15407fab-Newsletter_Issue_003_1_28_2010&utm_medium=email

few new concept artworks... *shrugs*

What's wrong with that fired bolter round? Looks so unreal, rounds don't frag the end up and go all black like that! What is the propellant in 41st cent? Gunpowder! lol

Okaaay, I'll just wander off and get a life then...

Like SoR said, Bolter rounds are actually small rockets. So when the round is fired and the rocket ignites, it'll obviously leave a casing that looks like that thanks to the fact that the round practically blows clear of the casing with explosive force.

The rocket ignites outside the barrel, hence the fluffy description of a bolter discharge sounding like a twin thunderclap. Also, the Dark Heresy material has a blurb about how bolter shells can be re-used.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Saturn-V-rocket-launch-ultra-slow-motion
This is a Saturn V rocket taking off burny stuff

metallifan wrote:

Sharpasaspoon wrote:

reds8n wrote: http://ultramarinesthemovie.com/about?utm_source=Ultramarines%3A+The+Movie&utm_campaign=eb15407fab-Newsletter_Issue_003_1_28_2010&utm_medium=email

few new concept artworks... *shrugs*

What's wrong with that fired bolter round? Looks so unreal, rounds don't frag the end up and go all black like that! What is the propellant in 41st cent? Gunpowder! lol

Okaaay, I'll just wander off and get a life then...

Like SoR said, Bolter rounds are actually small rockets. So when the round is fired and the rocket ignites, it'll obviously leave a casing that looks like that thanks to the fact that the round practically blows clear of the casing with explosive force.

Thanks for the info guys. Valid points all, BrookM has a good point.

I don't want to go off topic on this one or appear toooooo geekey but I know a lot about firearms, obviously not 40K but this seems to be dressing for eye candy (not a bad thing) instead of believability just my techy twopenneth worth.

NP Sharp.

You also got the date wrong FYI

It's the 41st Millennium, not 41st Century. Biiiig time difference there

Only by about 36,000 years!

Come on, that's but a minor clerical error, which are quite common in the Age of the Imperium, I think!

animation test
http://ultramarinesthemovieblog.com/blog/2010-02-11/talking-head

LOL - the East End-based successor chapter of the Ultramarines, judging by that sound test!

He sounds rather Orky for an Ultramarine.

He's bald and screaming, works for me.

Thumbs up here

Do you think they will change mags? (one of my pet peeves)

Including the video for those who didn't click the link.



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I like the voice and accent.

http://ultramarinesthemovieblog.com/blog/2010-02-12/guest-blog-nelson-games-workshop

You know, it's a vain hope, but I'd love to have Tom Baker do the famous "It is the forty first millennium and there is only war" opening as he did for Fire Warrior. He really has the voice for it.

BrookM wrote:You know, it's a vain hope, but I'd love to have Tom Baker do the famous "It is the forty first millennium and there is only war" opening as he did for Fire Warrior. He really has the voice for it.

second that

The facial animation is really nice. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that's not actually one of the voice actors for the film, just some animator barking out a line for the sake of an animation test. The new concept art looks nice too.